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Was the prolongation of the life of the last horse attributable 
to the influence of the counter-poison, or to the animal having 
taken a less quantity of the arseniate ? This question, perhaps, 
cannot be answered satisfactorily. It is not, however, fair to 
draw any conclusion unfavourable to the supposed antidote, 
because it was not administered until 28 hours after the poison 
had been taken. 
These cases give rise to an inquiry of the highest importance. 
When a law, not too severe, forbids the sale of poisons except 
sanctioned by the prescription of a physician, under the fine of 
3000 francs, ought the most active of them to be sent every 
day on the public road without the slightest precaution ? The 
Council General of Health is beginning to occupy itself with 
this important question. The solicitude of these learned men 
for all that interests the public health, is a sufficient guarantee 
of the propriety of the measures which they may adopt. 
Recueily Sep. 1834. 
C ONSULTATI O N. 
COLIC—ENTERITIS—PNEUMONIA. 
Bp Mr. B-. 
1 HAVE been attending a mare belonging to Mr. W-, far¬ 
rier, in this neighbourhood. She was observed to be ill on the 
morning of the i2th of October. I was sent for at 11 o’clock 
A.M., and on my arrival at the stables, found the mare labouring 
under spasms of the intestines. I then inquired of Mr. W-, 
aftd the servant who drove the mare, concerning her previous 
treatment, and the state of her bowels before her illness. 
They told me that she had been very hardly worked, and fed 
wholly on dry corn and straw ; but that they had paid little 
attention to her bowels. 
The spasms appeared to be caused by the new straw, for there 
was no cold suddenly applied to the surface of her skin, nor cold 
water to the inner surface of her intestines while she was hot; 
nor was there previous costiveness, so far as I could learn. The 
symptoms were not so violent as in colic generally. 
Treatment .—I abstracted blood, three pints and a half Scotch 
(seven (piarts); gave three drachms of Barbadocs aloes in solu¬ 
tion, and two ounces of tincture of opium. I fomented her 
belly, and threw up clysters, by which means the spasms be¬ 
came relaxed, and the pain abated. 
